Category: Culture

What is friendship? Can you rely on other persons just because you feel emotionally attracted? Or is it a long step by step process to gain one’s friendship? Is friendship a first sight thing or a long taming process? Can you lose a long year’s friendship in a rash moment? Does friendship mean feeling well … Continue reading A crowded desert

Construisons un Phalanstère de savoir, un édifice des passions gouvernées, des pulsions dirigées dans une direction domestiquée... Ou bien le contraire? "Si vos sciences dictées par la sagesse n'ont servi qu'à perpétuer l'indigence et les déchirements, donnez-nous plutôt des sciences dictées par la folie, pourvu qu'elles calment les fureurs, qu'elles soulagent les misères des peuples." … Continue reading The desert of knowledge

What’s going on? I feel beaten, body and head are terribly aching, my spine is a mess, my neck is going to break off... I’m feeling sick… Starts the body hurting when it isn’t fed? Did yesterday’s Yoga cause sour muscles? Did I unconsciously awaken my KUNDALINI? Did my meditation over deserts and serpents put … Continue reading Painfully DESERTed

Bin Samstag Abend voll ins Fettnäpfchen getreten... ! Sono italiana - non posso essere diplomatica! Après j'ai décidé de ne plus parler que français - c'était beaucoup mieux! Stupid Austrian people! Why can’t I just keep my silly mouth shut? My Italian temperament prevents me from acting diplomatically… acting by the way is not my … Continue reading Desert-ation

There is it again – this senselessness… to many impressions, to many emotions, no issue… absurd senselessness… talking talking talking… what for… pure absurdity... futility....Leave me alone - j'ai le cafard...

Le désert chez nous - it's a cold one. Feeling ugly, stupid - lourde and emprisonée dans le corps. And one day there is the white snow - a wide empty landscape making you light - élévée - in a waste land. A warm bathing water flows around you, and than by-and-by the warmth itself … Continue reading My desert

In the wideness of the desert, in the loneliness of the body, in the emptiness of the mind the contradictory becomes true…

For 36 hours without food - this allows you new sights... onto the world and into your self...Now the fast period has begun - 6 weeks pure vegan food... it's a time of the year I love because of the clarity of the mind and the wellness of the body... the spirits begin to flow...

Initially the word LENT simply meant spring, and later became associated with the fast. The English word "lent" derives from the Germanic root *langat-tin - today's german "Lenz" - for Spring (specifically Old English lencten; also the Anglo-Saxon name for March - lenct - as the main part of Lent, before Easter, usually occurred in … Continue reading LENT

Faschingskrapfen - the traditional Austian Carnival sweet... Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day or Fat Tuesday, Terça-feira Gorda, Martedì Grasso, Martes de Carnaval or in Austrian and Southern German respectively Faschingdienstag, Fastnachtsdienstag, Fetter Dienstag It’s the day before LENT – which begins the next day on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday (Easter). So … Continue reading Mardi Gras

This 5000-year-old Mask of Warka is believed to be the oldest surviving mask. "The whole company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the stranger neither wit nor propriety existed." E. A. POE, The Masque of the Red Death Masks have been used since antiquity for ceremonial, aesthetic, and … Continue reading PERSONS behind MASKS and AVATARS

Tonight we met at DEEWAN's with Mustapha and Ahmed...

still tired - more coming soon @ my album...

Tonight: Vienna Opera Ball Let's dance Cheers PIC: See my sweet daughter at the dress rehearsal yesterday "Que serve sonhar com princesas, mais que sonhar com a porta da entrada do escritório? Why prefer dreaming of princesses instead of dreaming of the door to the office?" Fernando Pessoa There is nothing wrong of dreaming of … Continue reading OPERNBALL – dreaming of princesses….

Incredible! We met our Moroccan friend Facilitator today at the Coffee Day in Vienna! See how our first meeting took place... More pics @ my album...